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Generations of children have been brought up on La Fontaine's Fables. Only an absent-minded or perversely liberal parent, however, would leave the same author's Contes et nouvelles en vers lying around the nursery. The first volume was published three years before the Fables started to appear. They were the fruit of his wicked delight in the tales he found in Boccaccio's Decameron, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Rabelais's Pantagruel, and elsewhere. Marital misdemeanours, resourceful females, addled males, proved the inspiration for some richly inventive plotting. He retold the stories in his own words, commenting on them wryly as he went along.
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Marital misdemeanours, resourceful females and addled males provided inspiration for some richly inventive plotting and neatly turned witticisms in the early centuries. Here Fontaine retells in his own words and with wicked delight some of these saucy tales, with illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.
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- PublisherHarvill Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1860464912
- ISBN 13 9781860464911
- BindingHardcover
- IllustratorSmith Richard Shirley
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